Resuming the blog ...

Due to the exams and the month-long-vacations I was away from the net. Many thoughts that should have been posted during this period are piled up by now. Am posting those by editing 'date' field to the date on which I should have posted each of those. This is just to maintain relevance in case I refer to these posts in future.
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The biggest event of this duration was obviously the 26-nov terror attack on Bharat in Mumbai.
A lot has been said/written/discussed by many experts already.
Hence I thought it better to summarize my thoughts on it in this post itself instead of posting a separate one.
As we all agree that the problem this incident highlighted is a deeper one. But going to its root makes it clear that the real crisis is the same as is being faced in many other cases - from corruption to cultural degradation (quoting from a speech by Dr Mohan ji Bhagwat, RSS Sara-Karyavah, in Nagpur in 2005-06) :

1. Crisis of Identity
2. Crisis of Credibility
3. Crisis of Character

Identifying these crises and overcoming them is sufficient to solve all the problems.
More clarification might be needed on this, but let's leave it for the reader's own chintan for the time being.

As far as accusing the political leaders is concerned (which is the general tone these days), I think we just need to take a look at our history.
We need leaders like Srikrishna, Chanakya and Shivaji - three of the greatest statesmen the nation has ever produced.
They always held a national outlook, were selfless souls, delivered what they promised, and were beyond the three crises mentioned.
But one should also notice that they didn't fall from sky - they were produced by this soil, this society. Period.